Robert "Benny" Young is a Scottish film, television and stage actor.
In 2009, Young toured with the National Theatre of Scotland production Be Near Me.[1]
In 2013 Young appeared in the West End production of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui at the Duchess Theatre.[2]
Young appeared in the Edinburgh International Festival 2018 in the production of David Greig's Midsummer.[3]
In 2018 Young played Sir Simon Fraser in the Netflix original film Outlaw King, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 6 September 2018. In autumn 2023, he played Moon in the Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and Pitlochry Festival Theatre production of Peter Arnott's Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape.[4]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Nosey Dobson | PC MacLean | ||
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire | Rob Liddell | ||
| 1981–1982 | Maggie | Colin Scott | TV series | |
| 1985 | White Nights | Flight Engineer | ||
| 1985 | Out of Africa | Minister | ||
| 1985 | The Girl in the Picture | Ron | ||
| 1986 | Captive | Psychologist | ||
| 1994 | Funny Man | Max Taylor | ||
| 2013 | National Theatre Live: Macbeth | Scottish Doctor | ||
| 2018 | Outlaw King | |||
| 2018 | Wild Rose | Judge | ||
| 2021 | Shetland | James Pérez | TV series |
| 1 - 5 May 2014 | Love with a Capital 'L | Hamish Pirie | play by Tony Cox | ||||
| 4 - 14 October 2023 | Group Portrait in a Summer Landscape | Moon | Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh | play by Peter Arnott |